They just need to quit blocking people without authorization. We have a procedure. Try talk, then mediation, then appeal to Jimbo if mediation doesn't work to request Jimbo to ask for arbitration.
Fred
From: Caroline Ford caroline@secretlondon.me.uk Reply-To: caroline@secretlondon.me.uk, English Wikipedia wikien-l@Wikipedia.org Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 20:18:03 +0000 To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@Wikipedia.org Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] The Block Log
Caroline Ford wrote:
Poor, Edmund W wrote:
The Block Log makes fascinating reading. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Block_log
Here are some highlights:
- Users blocked by Jimbo tend to stay unblocked
- Wik gets blocked and unblocked a lot
- Raul really wants to block Plautus
- Not one "block" citing a Committee decision
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Agreed - there seems to be a lot of blocking logged in users at the moment - just because someone is annoyed with them. The precedent was set a few weeks ago, it seems to be happening at least once a day now.
Secretlondon
My worry is that if Khranus, Mr Natural Health etc had been around this week - they would have just been permanently blocked with no discussion. This _is_ what is happening at the moment - and for lesser cases as well.
I'm wondering whether we should go as far as to have a temporary time out on blocking usernames. Of course, the minute we do that we'll have Michael.
We need to put the genie back in the box.
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